Estimated amount: China struck an agreement with Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani in an early November meeting to start releasing the $22 billion oil payment blocked in an Iranian bank account in Beijing, the Fars News Agency reported. A source familiar with the situation told Reuters that the Iranian Central Bank and the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) each has two accounts at Kunlun, one yuan-denominated and one in euros.

Estimated amount: About $5.3 billion held up by the sanctions. Of the total, about $1.8 billion is with the oil companies that have bought crude from Iran and the remainder is held with state-run UCO Bank. In mid-October, the NIOC had asked Indian refiners to pay in euros via Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank.